Inventor · Middlesex, NJ, US

John Armer

22Patents
15h-index
13Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 30, 1982 → Jun 22, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6768616B2 Electrostatic discharge protection structures for high speed technologies with mixed and ultra-low voltage supplies Electricity 98 Expired
US6909149B2 Low voltage silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection of silicon-on-insulator technologies Electricity 84 Expired
US6803633B2 Electrostatic discharge protection structures having high holding current for latch-up immunity Electricity 58 Expired
US6583972B2 Multi-finger current ballasting ESD protection circuit and interleaved ballasting for ESD-sensitive circuits Electricity 47 Expired
US7098394B2 Method and apparatus for powering circuitry with on-chip solar cells within a common substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 44 Expired
US7064393B2 Electrostatic discharge protection structures having high holding current for latch-up immunity Electricity 43 Expired
US6898062B2 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device with simultaneous and distributed self-biasing for multi-finger turn-on Electricity 34 Expired
US6850397B2 Silicon controlled rectifier electrostatic discharge protection device for power supply lines with powerdown mode of operation Electricity 32 Expired
US6770918B2 Electrostatic discharge protection silicon controlled rectifier (ESD-SCR) for silicon germanium technologies Electricity 31 Expired
US7589944B2 Electrostatic discharge protection structures for high speed technologies with mixed and ultra-low voltage supplies Electricity 28 Expired
US6791122B2 Silicon controlled rectifier electrostatic discharge protection device with external on-chip triggering and compact internal dimensions for fast triggering Electricity 23 Expired
US7005708B2 Minimum-dimension, fully-silicided MOS driver and ESD protection design for optimized inter-finger coupling Electricity 21 Expired
US4722066A Digital signal overflow correction apparatus Physics 19 Expired
US4523292A Complementary FET ripple carry binary adder circuit Physics 18 Expired
US7233467B2 Method and apparatus for protecting a gate oxide using source/bulk pumping Electricity 15 Expired
US7274047B2 Silicon controlled rectifier electrostatic discharge protection device for power supply lines with powerdown mode of operation Electricity 15 Expired
US4685079A Ripple-borrow binary subtraction circuit Physics 10 Expired
US7548401B2 Electrostatic discharge protection structures for high speed technologies with mixed and ultra-low voltage supplies Electricity 10 Active
US4739503A Carry/borrow propagate adder/subtractor Physics 7 Expired
US7763940B2 Device having a low-voltage trigger element Electricity 7 Active
US7414273B2 Two-dimensional silicon controlled rectifier Electricity 5 Expired
US7372681B2 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device with simultaneous and distributed self-biasing for multi-finger turn-on Electricity 3 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.